[Edvard]

It’s been a fun challenge everyone! I’ve learnt a lot and will continue to build these kinds of sites.

Site #1:
– Articles: 251
– Total traffic: 260
– Organic traffic: 218
– GSC Clicks: 11

Site #2:
– Articles: ~7,000,000
– Total traffic: 2,814
– Organic traffic: 2,347
– GCS Clicks: 2,058

Site #3:
– Articles: 6,232
– Total traffic: 9,347
– Organic traffic: 10,103
– GSC Clicks: 8,791

https://youtu.be/cXsCOvhIg2U

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[Edvard]

Site #1

Total traffic: 45
Organic sessions: 34
GSC clicks: 15
Articles: 245

Site is still dead.

Site #2

Total traffic: 20,340
Organic sessions: 18,612
GSC clicks: 19,300
Articles: ~7,000,000

Most traffic is from the first half of the month as the site got hit quite hard. I’m not optimistic for a speedy recovery, but I don’t think all hope is out for a gradual comeback. For now I’ll just wait and see.

Site #3

Total traffic: 9,346
Organic sessions: 7,650
GSC clicks: 7,900
Articles: 5,804

Happy with ~50% growth from last month. Traffic has been a bit volatile lately. Not sure if it’s because of my site-wide content update to fresh data or if it’s the google update kicking in. Will try to flesh out some thin pages this month and hopefully have time to start some link building. Even though it’s a bit late to have large effect for this challenge, I wanna continue growing the site.

[Edvard]

Site #1
Total traffic: 57
Organic sessions: 49
GSC Clicks: 16
Pages: 245 (95 indexed)

Google traffic up slightly, Yandex down. Pretty much given up on this site.

Site #2
Total traffic: 24.1k
Organic sessions: 22.8k
GSC Clicks: 24.2k
Pages: ~7M (1.04M indexed)

Google decided to allocate a much higher crawling budget to my site. During January Google has indexed 1M pages. Traffic has been fairly stable for the last half of January, peaking at 1.7k on Jan. 24th. I’m very happy with the growth in traffic. Fingers crossed it’ll last and continue to grow.

Site #3
Total traffic: 5.7k
Organic sessions: 4.9k
GSC Clicks: 4.8k
Pages: 5.8K (5K indexed)

Steady growth throughout January. Did not do any updates during January so that’ll be the goal for February in stead. Most of the data I’m using is updated yearly, mid February. Doing the update to 2023 data will take me a bit of time, but might also give a traffic increase as I’d imagine interest in the new data is higher.

January was a very bad month in terms of productivity overall, however the traffic growth keeps me motivated for a productive February.

[Edvard]

Site #1
Total traffic: 49
Organic sessions: 43
GSC Clicks: 7
Pages: 243 (236 indexed)

Most traffic is from Yandex. Did one last update to the site in December but the competition is higher than first expected. Will not put more hours into this site unless it the numbers pick up on their own.

Site #2
Total traffic: 648
Organic sessions: 560
GSC Clicks: 557
Pages: ~7M (43K indexed)

Showing healthy growth with almost 10x from last month. Gonna change my indexing prioritization in January to index the pages with lowest competition rather than the staple posts. Hoping to 5x GSC traffic.

Site #3:
Total traffic: 1,012
Organic session: 934
GSC Clicks: 937
Pages: 5.8K (5.7K indexed)

This site was just published December 10th, so I’m very happy and a bit surprised to reach 1,000 visitors in just 3 weeks. Even the directory pages containing only a list of links to other pages are starting to rank. Gonna focus on content for these pages as I think they have potential. Aiming to 7x GSC traffic next month.

Might publish a 4th site in January to keep it one per month. Might also look into some link building.

[Edvard]

Here’s my month 2 update: https://youtu.be/maUUZ65kAyI

[Edvard]

Here is my October update: https://youtu.be/LdCrtOMMsJg

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